Hawaii
UH ALUM Gayle Kagemoto, as the 100,000th volleyball fan to watch the 'Bows play in the Special Events Center this season, is happy these days. She won a $500 package from Bankoh plus logo wear that'll take her from courtside to poolside in style. They even tossed in a Cross pen for writing checks. Bankoh is also sponsoring the Bank of Hawaii Cup with international women's Olympic volleyball teams competing at the new Special Events Arena in September ...
THIS has been quite a month for the female gender, ranging from Secretary's Day (mostly women) to Take Our Daughters to Work Day (for the most part girls) to 100 per cent female involvement. That would be the La Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls' production of Moliere's "Scapino," this coming weekend. The girls there designed and constructed all the sets, made all the costumes and, of course, play all the roles ...
Rob Fukuzaki
SPEAKING of KITV, former sports anchor Rob Fukuzaki was back from L.A. where he now does sports with KABC, and looked up some of his old Channel 4 colleagues vxxx After playing her accordion for a surprise 85th birthday party for musician Martin Denny, marketing exec Christie Adams was surprised to see columnist Eddie Sherman get up and play the spoons. "I know he does wonders with a knife and fork," deadpanned one wry wag, "but had no idea he could play the spoons as well." Accordionists, spoon players - sounds like a night of entertainment to be reckoned with ...
ONE of the winners in the 53rd annual "Pictures of the Year" competition sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association, has local ties. P.F. Bentley, who won first place in a News Picture Story division for a photo of Newt Gingrich in Time Magazine, was raised in Hawaii and used to work for SunBums ...
REMEMBER the item here about restaurateur Fred Livingston reminiscing about his old office in Foster Tower, an early Waikiki highrise. It became the building of choice for jumpers at the time and several over the years leapt and landed on his lanai. Now his office is in Eaton Square and the other morning at 2 a.m. he got a call at home from the cops saying a young woman hand jumped and landed on his lanai. Deja vu. But this time he had an out - he told HPD to call his G.M., Russell Druce, who lives right across the street ...
